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Stewart will work first on the Gifford Lectures of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, delivered by Nock in 1946 but still unpublished. He plans to edit the lectures, which deal with Hellenistic religion, and add a commentary supplementing the famed classicist's original ideas with later discoveries made largely by Nock himself...
Molyneux is a curious hybrid. An Englishman whose line is Arc de Triomphe, never Marble Arch, he is the Parisian equivalent of Manhattan's Mainbocher, a classicist devoted to the soft look and tailored line. Let others raise hems to the heavens; for Molyneux, knee-length skirts are no less "absolutely vulgar" today than in 1928, when he first said so. The new Molyneux collection was unabashedly oldfashioned, and it drew both snippish sniffs ("Typically British," deplored the London Daily Telegraph) and soulful sighs ("The style and taste are still there," cooed the Daily Mail...
Back in Edinburgh for the music festival, Todd soon finds his apartment burgeoning with Nicole, Elke, two teenagers, an Italian cellist, and some spongy smart talk. As a friend who pops by on occasion, Classicist Judith Anderson clowns with the air of a lady willing but unable to whip out a bare bodkin and turn the arrant nonsense into a bloody good show. Would that she could...
...Classicist, philosopher, novelist, essayist, memoirist, journalist, diarist (170-odd volumes of notebooks repose in Houghton Library)--and so much more. Above all he strove to be a 20th-century Periclean Hellene; and his whole life was indeed a paragon of the ancient Greek arete...
...girl who steps out is a natural blonde with bright blue eyes, a large mobile mouth, and a smile that is not quite too cool to be overpowering. She is an actress of prodigious experience who has been in 30 movies and twice as many plays, an accomplished classicist who prompts the purplest critics in the frozen north to write that she "fills every corner of the stage with feminine sovereignty, beauty, sex and nerves-a star shining by its own power without reflection from irrelevant suns." Ingrid Thulin (pronounced too-lean) was born into a comfortably landed family...